pucker

  • 11pucker — puck|er [ pʌkər ] verb intransitive or transitive 1. ) pucker or pucker up if your lips pucker, you squeeze them together and out a ) if your forehead puckers, it becomes full of lines, for example because you are thinking or your head hurts 2. ) …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 12Pucker! — Infobox Album Name = Pucker! Type = studio Artist = The Selecter Released = August 22 1995 Recorded = Genre = rock ska Length = Label = DOJO Records Producer = Nick Welsh Reviews = Last album = The Happy Album (1994) This album = Pucker! (1995)… …

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  • 13Pucker up — Infobox Album Name = Pucker up Type = studio Artist = Lipps Inc. Released = 1980 Recorded = Genre = Disco Length = Label = Casablanca NBLP 7242 Producer = Steven Greenberg Reviews = Last album = Mouth to Mouth (1979) This album = Pucker up (1980) …

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  • 14pucker — puck|er [ˈpʌkə US ər] v also pucker up [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from poke bag (13 20 centuries), from Old North French; POCKET1] 1.) [I and T] if part of your face puckers, or if you pucker it, it becomes tight or stretched, for example …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15pucker — also pucker up verb (I, T) 1 if your mouth puckers or if you pucker it, the lips are pulled tightly together: Her mouth puckered up and she started to cry. 2 (I) if cloth puckers, it gets lines or folds in it and is no longer flat pucker noun (C) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16pucker up — phrasal verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms pucker up : present tense I/you/we/they pucker up he/she/it puckers up present participle puckering up past tense puckered up past participle puckered up same as pucker 1) Expecting a kiss, Katy… …

    English dictionary

  • 17Pucker — Recorded in several forms including Puck, Pucke, Pooke, as well as the diminutives Pockett, Pockett, Puckett, the patronymics Pocketts, Pucketts, the definitive Pucker, this intriguing and uncommon name is of early English origins. It derives… …

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  • 18pucker — verb Pucker is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑face Pucker is used with these nouns as the object: ↑brow, ↑lip …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 19pucker — [16] The etymological notion underlying pucker seems to be of forming into ‘pockets’ or small baglike wrinkles (the same idea led to the use of the verb purse for ‘wrinkle, pucker’ – now dated in general usage, but fossilized in the expression… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 20pucker —   Puku, pu u.   Also: mōkio, liki, ānuhenuhe, ho o i ika, hō ekeke i.    ♦ To pucker the lips, pu u ka waha, minoi, mīnoinoi, kaniuli.    ♦ To pucker and unpucker the lips, piolo …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary